"He who receives an idea from me,..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“All men are created equal.”

“No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.”

“There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.”

“Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.”

“I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.”

“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”

“Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.”

“If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.”

“Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on.”